Posts Tagged With: Friends

waiting for the end

 

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

 

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.


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laughing

 

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2014.


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a danger

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in May 2010.


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saxophones

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.


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fantômes

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.


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in my time of dying

 

“For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2014.


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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.


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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,
don’t make the wheel start up again,
then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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A DANGER

 

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in May 2010.


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THE CAGE

 

“The bars on our cage are of our own making.”

 

~ Jessie Burton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1993.


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SAXOPHONES

 

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.


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TREE OF LIFE

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.


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FANTÔMES

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.


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THE CRYSTAL BALL

 

“Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.”

 

~ Roger von Oech ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.


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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,
don’t make the wheel start up again,
then is now and now is then,
it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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THE STAIRCASE

 

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.


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FOUR FRAGMENTS

 

“A man is a very small thing,
and the night is very large and full of wonders.”

 

~ Edward Plunkett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Glücksburg, Germany on the Baltic Sea in Summer 1984.


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